Buzzing with Knowledge: How Many Bees Can You Get Right?
Quizzee Rascal
Created 6/20/2024
Test your bee-autiful knowledge with this quiz about our fascinating buzzing friends! See how many correct answers you can get out of 20!
1. How many eyes do bees have?
2. What are male bees in the hive called?
Kings
Workers
Soldiers
Drones
3. Approximately how fast can bees fly?
4. Female bees in the hive, except the queen, are known as?
Nurses
Guards
Workers
Foragers
5. How many eggs can a queen bee lay per day at her peak?
6. What happens to a bee after it loses its stinger?
It regenerates the stinger
It dies
It becomes a drone
It becomes sterile
7. For how many years have bees existed on Earth?
10 million
20 million
30 million
40 million
8. Where do bees carry pollen?
On their back
On their wings
On their hind legs
In their mouth
9. What is the capacity of an average beehive?
10,000 bees
25,000 bees
50,000 bees
75,000 bees
10. How much nectar must foragers collect to make 1 pound of honey?
500,000 flowers
1 million flowers
1.5 million flowers
2 million flowers
11. Approximately how much honey does an average forager make in her lifetime?
1/10 th of a teaspoon
1/12 th of a teaspoon
1/15 th of a teaspoon
1/20 th of a teaspoon
12. What is the average per capita honey consumption in the US?
0.5 pounds
1.3 pounds
2.0 pounds
2.5 pounds
13. How many pairs of wings do bees have?
14. How do honey bees primarily communicate?
Through sound
Through pheromones
Through the waggle dance
Through light signals
15. What crops do bees pollinate in the US?
Fruit
Fiber
Nut
All of the above
16. What is the economic contribution of bee pollination to US agriculture annually?
2 billion dollars
5 billion dollars
10 billion dollars
14 billion dollars
17. What is a special food given to a larva to develop it into a queen bee?
Nectar
Propolis
Royal jelly
Pollen
18. How much of our food depends on pollinators such as bees?
19. Where do most solitary bees nest?
20. What trick can help a struggling bumblebee to recover?
Give it honey
Put it in sunlight
Offer it sugar water
Move it to a hive
